Jack Straw has said departments should not be reorganised based on the "whim" of prime ministers and advice of "earnest young Turks" in 10 Downing Str...
Last week the true impact of the government's cuts became very clear. It is women, children, the elderly and the homeless that are going to get hit the worst.
Ed Miliband today said the current generation of politicians owe a "massive obligation" to young people as he vowed to only make promises he can keep....
Radical cleric Abu Qatada cannot be sent back to Jordan because it would be a "flagrant denial of justice", human rights judges ruled today. The fi...
Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 is a menace to free speech and the right to protest. It has been repeatedly abused by over-zealous police and prosecutors, to variously arrest gay rights campaigners, Christian street preachers, critics of Scientology and even students making jokes.
A senior detective attacked Britain's "Only Fools and Horses" culture today as a gang faced gaol for a fake goods empire worth tens of millions of pou...
Kenneth Clarke today said he had never before seen a need for a British Bill of Rights. But the Justice Secretary told MPs and peers he now had an ...
The single most important fact about the birth of Jesus, as recounted in the Gospels, is one that receives almost no emphasis at Christmas: the child who was born in Bethlehem represented a drastic political challenge to the imperial power of Rome.
Crime could rise if Britain plunges back into recession, the Justice Secretary has admitted. Ken Clarke told MPs the prison population may incre...
The role of the advocate is an ancient one. The right of a person to be represented before the civil power has been and is fundamental to all legal systems, one maintained even where the process is little more than a smoke-screen designed to give state persecution the veneer of legitimacy.
The widow of a man who was murdered by youths he challenged outside their Warrington home has launched a passionate defence of the Government's contro...
The real life drama that captivated the Israeli public for over five years has come to an end, Moshe Katsav, the former Israeli president has been convicted of rape.
With these latest additions, the sensible, measured proposals set out by the coalition just under a year ago are becoming an increasingly distant memory. The Government would do well to recall the spirit of its original plans before important principles are abandoned for tabloid-pleasing toughness.
At the Carlton Club's Carlton Lecture, which in the past has been delivered by sitting Prime Ministers, including Margaret Thatcher, the former Conservative party leader, now in the House of Lords as Lord Howard of Lympne, openly criticised the current Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, by repeating his 1993 mantra, "prison works".
This week's release of the crime statistics for England and Wales paint a bleak picture. They brought to bear some of our concerns and vindicated many of our warnings. I by no means welcome this. The police recorded crime statistics show a 4% overall decline.
On a very cold Tuesday at 12 noon I met with Isobel Hulsmann outside the Home Office. Isabel is 83 years old and for the past 24 years she and her family have been at the centre of what London's Assistant Police Commissioner called "one of the most deplorable episodes in the entire history of the Metropolitan Police Service."
LAND close to St Paul's Cathedral remains occupied by a group of anarchists who show no signs of abandoning the camp first established there in 886 AD...
Justice, like forgiveness, is a loaded word, bandied about by just about everyone - used as much by advocates for penal reform as by those who call for the death penalty.
Since the August riots, the prison population in England and Wales (already one of the highest in Western Europe) has been on an upward trajectory, with new record highs reached in each of the past four weeks.
Ken Clarke continues to demonstrate how out of touch he is on so many levels. He is out of touch with the victims, he is out of touch on how to make our communities safer and he is simply out of touch with the reality faced in today's prison service.
A thought-provoking question is: what do victims of crime want most when it comes to offenders?
In questions to the Justice Secretary last week, Ken Clarke accused the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of being 'disingenuous' for claiming that his proposals would make it more difficult for victims of human rights abuse by British-based multi-nationals to gain access to justice.
Vincent Cooke hit the headlines a couple of days ago in a case that has ignited the debate regarding the rights of home owners to defend their homes...this deadly skirmish has provoked much debate as to whether or not Mr Cooke was entitled to 'take the law into his own hands'.
The Government plans to remove the "fundamental right" to free legal advice for people held in police custody – 27 years after it was introduced to ...
A quarter of people charged over the UK riots had committed more than 10 offences in the past, according to figures released on Thursday morning. T...
